Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "The bold plan to end malaria with a gene drive" video.

  1. This has to go forwards... carefully, but still. Much like you know... the rest of medical research. As for Friends of the Earth's idea and callout, I have to say sorry, but this message is coming at least a few thousand years too late. And honestly, people like these should just shut up and go live in a cave or something, get eaten by a bear if it's about having the least impact. We have been "permanently altering nature" since we first stepped on this world. It's what we do. And we're only still here because of it. We only thrived because of it. And we will keep doing it while we are here. We can be 100% passive and neutral when we are dead. We've altered the proportions, nutricional value, and prevalence of all sorts of foodstuff by selective breeding and other techniques... this is way before GMOs btw. We started changing ecosystems the minute we started building structures to live more permanently in communities. We have and are still erradicating certain species and certain organisms from certain environments for our own benefit. And while I do agree that it is extremely bad to drive animals to extinction only because of greed, the fact is that not doing exactly that in early stages of human development, or not doing it for certain parasitic species and populations that have gone out of control, would pretty much mean letting the human species die off in certain parts of the world. But perhaps more importantly, sure, if we have less risky ways of doing it, just present it to us then. Make it happen. Stop wasting time questioning what is being done, and present the ideas that are less risky and supposedly better. Kids won't stop dying just because of vague ideas that there must be some less risky way, you gotta prove that it can be done and start doing it. And it's such a hypocritical argument too... dude, if you are living in modern society, you are already prety much permanently altering nature and contributing others to also do it in very major ways, with most of your money and time everyday.
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